The Family History Guide Blog

September 6, 2025

What I Learned from 1418 Consultations for FamilySearch

Note: This article has been updated to reflect that FamilySearch consultations have not been discontinued. During the past five years, I have scheduled 1418 online consultations for FamilySearch.org. These consultations originated from the Salt Lake City FamilySearch Library website. There were dozens of people volunteering to respond to the consultation requests, mostly Church Service Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of...

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August 31, 2025

New: Guided Learning Video Series

We are excited to introduce a new series of videos for The Family History Guide—Guided Learning. As of this writing there are seven videos, ranging from an overview of the series to online search techniques. Each video is accompanied by a personal guide who leads the learner through the course material. About Guided Learning The Guided Learning videos focus mostly...

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August 31, 2025

Getting Started Videos, in Spanish

Last week we published a number of new videos on our Get Started page. The first two videos also have Spanish translations, but these are not translated just captions: the on-screen narrator speaks clear and authentic Spanish. Here are the two Spanish videos for your convenience, and more translated videos are on the way.

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August 24, 2025

New: Get Started Videos on the Home Page

For quite some we have had a series of slides in the upper-right corner of our home page, titled “Inside the Guide.” These slides provide links to some interesting features of The Family History Guide. Last week we introduced a new Welcome video for the site and inserted it as the first slide option. Now we are excited to introduce...

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August 24, 2025

Booth Magic: Behind the Scenes at RootsTech

As we celebrate our tenth year, we can’t help but mention some of the unsung heroes of our journey. Working quietly behind the scenes is a group of dedicated people who are instrumental in creating and assembling our RootsTech booth. Each year our booth gets larger, and the setup team manages to pull off a three-day miracle. Planning for the physical booth starts eight...

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August 17, 2025

New: Welcome Video

We just created a new welcome video for The Family History Guide website. It’s short – about 90 seconds in length – and engaging. You can find it on our YouTube Channel, and we have added it as the first video in the “Inside the Guide” section of the home page (upper right). The video is also included below for...

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August 17, 2025

Handling Record Problems

“It says so in that record!” … but is it really so? Sometimes the information we find in a record might not be a sure thing. Goal 7 of Project 4: Discover in the Family History Guide sheds some welcome light on potential problems with records. Here is a brief summary of the links to essential articles and videos you’ll...

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August 10, 2025

Welcome to David Aird – Show Booth Technology Specialist

The Management Team of The Family History Guide Association is excited welcome David Aird as its newest member, acting as our Show Booth Technology Specialist. You can learn more about David below, as well as on the web page for The Family History Guide Association. David has been involved in the A/V and theatrical world most of his life. As a...

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August 10, 2025

FamilySearch Improved Merge Experience

Note: This article appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. One basic fact about online family trees is their propensity to create duplicates. This apparently stems from the belief by each family tree contributor that their work is somehow unique and completely accurate. When this belief in uniqueness and accuracy is extended to the large online family tree websites,...

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